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1564 BCE
Brief Biography
Shakespeare was born and grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At 18 he married Anne Hathaway, the marriage with whom he had three children: a daughter Susanna and twins of Hamnet and Judith. Career began Shakespeare between 1585 and 1592, when he moved to London. He soon became a successful actor, playwright, and co-owner of a theatre company called "the Servants of the Lord Chamberlain's men", later known as the "Servant king". Around 1613 he returned to Stratford where he died three years later. -
Creativity
Literary heritage of Shakespeare falls into two unequal parts: verse (poems and sonnets) and drama. Belinsky wrote that "it would be too bold and strange to give Shakespeare a decisive advantage before all the poets of mankind, as a true poet, but as dramatist he is now left without a rival, whose name can be used to put beside his name" -
Life after death
Although, during his lifetime, Shakespeare was not considered a great playwright, he received accolades on his works. In 1598 the writer-priest Francis Mary singled him out English writers as "the most excellent" in Comedy and tragedy. And the authors of the playbook "Parnassus" compared Shakespeare with Chaucer, Gower and Spenser. In the First folio, Ben Jonson called Shakespeare: "the Soul of the age, the applause, delight, the wonder of our stage"
